Storm causes widespread power outages and road closures.

It's been a stormy few days, and it's going to stay that way, according to the National Weather Service. As a low pressure system moved onshore, it brought significant rainfall, and is expected to bring colder temperatures and more rain—and even snow on some peaks—starting Monday. 

High wind gusts early Saturday morning led to widespread power outages, affecting some 8,000 customers on the Monterey Peninsula and down the Big Sur coast. 

As of Sunday morning, some 4,500 PG&E connections on the Central Coast remain without power, about 1,000 of those in Carmel, Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove. 

Highway 1 was closed on Saturday in Carmel between Ocean Avenue and Carpenter Street while Caltrans removed a downed tree. 

With the one-square-mile Carmel-by-the-Sea, nine trees came down resulting in nine street closures and a power outage for all of Carmel on Saturday. Power came back on at about 3am Sunday morning for most of Carmel, and eight of those nine streets have reopened, while Junipero and Ninth remains closed. 

"It was a pretty good storm," Carmel City Administrator Chip Rerig says. "We had crews out yesterday, and they were fantastic." 

With up to another inch of rain expected to fall on Sunday through early Monday morning, Monterey County officials are anticipating rising Salinas River levels and preemptively closed Davis Road outside of Salinas on Sunday morning, Feb. 3, starting at 8am. (A recommended detour is Highway 68 and Reservation Road to avoid the closure; Davis Road will remain closed until further notice.)

As of Sunday morning, rainfall totals for the past 48 hours totaled 5.8 inches in high Big Sur peaks and 2.7 inches at Big Sur Station; 1.3 inches in Bradley in South Monterey County; 0.58 inches in Salinas; 1.5 inches in Carmel; and 1.4 inches in Monterey.